Indole-3-acetic acid synthesized through the indole-3-pyruvate pathway promotes Candida tropicalis biofilm formation

• Masaru Miyagi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mxm356@case.edu (MM); mag3@case.edu (MAG)

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-1216

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• Rachel Wilson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Daisuke Saigusa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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• Keiko Umeda,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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• Reina Saijo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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• Christopher L. Hager,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Yuejin Li,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Thomas McCormick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Mahmoud A. Ghannoum

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mxm356@case.edu (MM); mag3@case.edu (MAG)

  Affiliations Department of Dermatology, Center for Medical Mycology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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